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Gold Medal Reviews courtesy PaperbackWarrior.com
Paul Bishop: Gil Brewer—The Dark Invader
Justin Marriott: Brewer’s Droop
Bob Deis: Brewer in MAMs (Men’s Adventure Magazines)
Paul Bishop: The Other Marlowe
Justin Marriott: A Town Called Malice
Rob Matthews: Charles Williams and His Girls
Charles Williams Bibliography
Justin Marriott: A Visual Guide to Robert McGinnis
Justin Marriott: Brighter than Salmon Pink
Wyatt Doyle Interview
Paperback Fanatic No. 43 Jan. 2020
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Assistant Editor: Jim O’Brien
Proofer: Tom Tesarek
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Darrin Venticinque with a Jane Frank assist: A New Peak in Horror—Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace
James Dong: The Devil is a Gentleman—Dennis Wheatley
Dark Forces at Work—A Gallery of Dennis Wheatley’s Occult Novels
Scott Carlson: Voyage of the Carlson
Nigel Taylor: Young, Sharkey and Wilson
S.M. Guariento: Tripping the Ink Fantastic (Interview about Light Into Ink, an in-depth study of film novelizations)
Richard Pérez Seves: Unmasking Stanton (fetish artists Eric Stanton and Gene Billbrew)
Bill Cunningham: Mad Pulp Bastard (interview)
Andrew Nette: Sticking It to the Man (interview)
Paperback Fanatic No. 42 Nov. 2019
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Assistant Editor: Jim O’Brien
Proofer: Tom Tesarek
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The Men of Violence: All Review Special is now available. Featuring a foreword by Paul Bishop and an introduction by editor/publisher Justin Marriott, the bulk of this special edition consists of over 100 reviews of men’s adventure paperbacks from the 1960s and 1970s.
Contributors include Paul Bishop, Ben Boulden, Jim O’Brien, Andrew Byers, Andreas Decker, Mike Hauss, Morgan Holmes, Scott Kime, The Paperback Warrior, Scott Ranalli, Simon Ruleman, Ben Spurling, and Richard Toogood.
Men of Violence: All Review Special
June 2019
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Copy-Editing: Jim O’Brien
Cover Design: Bill Cunningham
7” x 10” 93 pages
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Heads Up (decapitation on PB covers)
Doom Mongerers (PBs based on the BBC’s Doomwatch eco-drama)
E.V. Cunningham (pseudonym of Howard Fast)
The Hitt Squad (letters between writers and publishers)
James Doig: Australian Film Novelisations
Justin Marriott: Raymond Kursar, Recollections of Manor Books
Jim O’Brien: All Hail the King! (Brian Hayles’ Doctor Who PBs and beyond)
James Doig: The ‘Plantation Pulps’ of New English Library
“Slaving Over a Hot Novel” (recap of Simon Redfern’s Penthouse article)
Rob Matthews: Segretissino, the Second Assignment
Richard Todgood: Crom’s Tomes! 50 Years of Conan in Paperback
King of the Nemedian Chroniclers (Roy Thomas)
Paperback Fanatic No. 41 March 2019
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Assistant Editor: Jim O’Brien
Proofer: Tom Tesarek
64 pages, 7” x 10” full color $10.00 POD
The Sleazy Reader No. 8 Feb. 2019
Contents
Cult Fiction: Reviews by Justin Marriott
Manson On the Rack by John Harrison
The Whole Horror Show by Justin Marriott
1978: A Cheap Holiday on Someone Else’s Misery by Justin Marriott
Covering Manson by Bob Deis
From the Grind-House to the Prime Time by John Harrison
Interview With a Serial Collector Howie Pyro
The Sleazy Reader No. 8 Feb. 2019
Editor: Justin Marriott
Copy Editor: Jim O’Brien
Back Cover: Rik Rawling
7” x 10” 64 pages, full color
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EC Lives!
Pulp Horror Reviews
Crocodile Fears
Sabat: The Man in Black
Daniel Farson’s Worlds of Horror
Started So Late, Ended So Soon
A Short History of the Silber Grusel-Krimi
Dobson’s Challenge
The Hell-Fire Gallery
Shapes of Midnight
Pulp Horror No. 8 December 2018
69 pages, ~6” x 9” (A5-size) perfect bound, full color throughout
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Contributors: Jim O’Brien, Andreas Decker, Tom Tesarek, Ben Spurling, and Morgan Holmes
Front cover: Rik Rawling
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The fanzine of vintage men’s adventure paperbacks.
Contents
Richard Toogood: Guest Editorial
Forgotten Artists One: Jack Hayes
Song of the South: Stuart Cloete
The Swordsman: Martin Holmes studies the historical novels of Gardner F. Fox
Forgotten Artists Two: Bill Francis Phillips
Paul Bishop “Talbot Mundy the Mystic Adventurer”
The Eternal Champion: A review of the first Casca book
“Casca the Immortal” interview with Tony Roberts
The Curse of Casca
Richard Toogood “Family of Fighting Eagles” The Aquila stories of Rosemary Sutcliff
Forgotten Artists Three: Richard Clifton-Dey
Jim O’Brien “The Viking Paperback Bloke” Henry Treece
Love Like Blood: Rafael Sabatini
Men of Violence No. 11 November 2018
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Copy Editor: Jim O’Brien
Cover: Rik Rawling
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“Artists Assemble: Guidio Crepax”
“Go Ape!” (Planet of the Apes paperbacks by George Alex Effinger)
“Robert Bonfils”
Justin Marriott “Beware—Richard Laymon!”
“Lin Carter Looks at Books” (reprinted from Castle of Frankenstein)
Graham Andrews “Fit to Be Tied: Gideon’s Day” (film/paperback tie-ins)
Tom Tesarek “Behind Every Great Man There’s a Woman” (Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife)
Rob Matthews “The Top Secret Series” (Italian Segretissimo series)
James Doig “Kins Cross Pulp” (Sydney, Australia’s seedy side)
Paperback Fanatic No. 40 Sep. 2018
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Assistant Editor: Jim O’Brien
64 pages, 6” x 9” full color $10.00 POD
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Justin Marriott: The Pulpit of Horror
Four-Colour Mummies
A Short Order of Mummies
A Checklist of The Mummy in Short Fiction
Novel Mummies
A Checklist of The Mummy in Novel 1940 to 1990
Andreas Decker and Justin Marriott: Die Mummien Komen
Ditko and Ellison: Pre-Code Horror and the Year’s Best
Pulp Horror #7 The Mummy Lives! August 2017
68 pages, ~6” x 8” (A5-size) perfect bound, full color throughout
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Copy Editor: Jim O’Brien
Contributors: Andreas Decker, Kev Demant Tom Tesarek, and Brian Emrich
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